Eat Your spinach, Kiddies!

[bobby]

An unusual sugar found in leafy greens can feed good bacteria to protect our gut and promote good health.
http://www.wehi.edu.au/news/sweet-discovery-leafy-greens-holds-key-gut-health

A critical discovery about how bacteria feed on an unusual sugar molecule found in leafy green vegetables could hold the key to explaining how ‘good’ bacteria protect our gut and promote health.

The finding suggests that leafy greens are essential for feeding good gut bacteria, limiting the ability of bad bacteria to colonise the gut by shutting them out of the prime ‘real estate’.

The discovery also provides crucial insights that may one day be exploited to develop an entirely new class of antibiotics.

so basically Popeye knew what he was doing
[bimg=200|no-lightbox]http://wearthecheese.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Popeye-and-his-spinach.jpg[/bimg]

 

[Remy]

I wonder if you can get these sugar sulfoquinovoses from the greens drinks like @IrisRV uses too?

 

[Cort]

An unusual sugar found in leafy greens can feed good bacteria to protect our gut and promote good health.
http://www.wehi.edu.au/news/sweet-discovery-leafy-greens-holds-key-gut-health

so basically Popeye knew what he was doing
[bimg=200|no-lightbox]http://wearthecheese.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Popeye-and-his-spinach.jpg[/bimg]

Time to make my yummy spinach and chicken salad with chopped up prunes maybe some split peas - almost anything works in that salad...

 

[Abrin]

One of my favorite breakfasts is creamed spinach with a poached egg.